Notices by clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la), page 10

As a marketing tactic, fear is amazing because it spreads itself. It's hardly surprising that Organic has been such a marketing success story.
If regulations hadn't hit back at "alternative medicine" making medical claims, their fear-based marketing might have shredded trust in real medicine like Organic has shredded trust in nonideological farming.
Without "regulating all the things", a poor outcome in itself, how do we counter this natural social bias toward trusting fear?

Also can we kill organic so that there're room in the public consciousness for an actually environmentally sound farming movement/brand?
Oh shit I just fell into the revolutionary trap of assuming the replacement will be better..

@Shufei For sure: organic is a melange of good and bad concepts. Many of the good concepts have gone mainstream, like no-till, cover cropping etc.
On the subject of gene/variety patents, I wholly agree those are wrong. But those have actually nothing to do with GE: you can patent a gene variant you discovered in a landrace and bred in. You can patent any new variety, whether genes are new or not. GE is a breeding method, patenting is a monopoly method. Organic permits patents.

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The impending sale of GitHub to Microsoft is another example of what happens when we fixate on #opensource IP but not equitable corporate ownership models. How *should* the repository of most free, open software projects be owned?